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News Release 14-166
$1 million prize for digital innovation to capture info from traditional 'bug boxes'
National competition launched to stimulate development of a new tool to digitally record images and data from museum insect collections
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The competition is designed to spur the development of digital innovations for capturing 3-D images of insect specimens and associated data.
Credit: Reed Beaman, NSF, BIO
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Competition for new tool to digitally capture images and data from museum insect collections is open.
Credit: American Institute of Biological Sciences
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